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Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

Start date: October 1, 2024

Finish date: December 31, 2024

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

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New School Classics- 1915-2005

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Apr 03, 2017 Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: viciados-em-livros, e-books, kindle, american-fiction, 1000-guardian, read-2017, mtbr-challenge-2017, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, abandoned

After reading almost 50% of this book, I gave up. This is not a bad book, on the contrary. But reading it requires a very tough discipline and some other skills.

Perhaps it will try to read in another moment of my life, who knows....

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Nov 08, 2010 J Simpson rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites, classics

Actually read the whole thing (well, i didn't read ALL the footnotes) during a period when my computer died. Difficult going, at times, but definitely worth it, and it really inspired me towards the literary craft, which i think is the mark of good art. I think anybody could find a character to relate to in this; whether a member of AA, an aspiring tennis pro, a hunchback, a disfigured radio host addicted to crack cocaine. Something in here for everybody!
I've heard this compared to this generati ...more

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Jul 07, 2011 Justin Difazzio rated it it was amazing

What a long haul. But a beautiful, messy, strange, hilarious, tragic mess.

I can't even begin to "review" this book beyond the fact that the characters are amazingly realized, as is the world. Even the dysfunction is dysfunctional in this novel...

I'm still trying to figure out what it's REALLY all about, and I'm not embarrassed to admit that. If you want to submerge yourself in the lives and times of a crowd of crazy people whose lives all intersect in strange and wonderful ways, read this. It's ...more

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Sep 16, 2008 Mary rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-i-am-never-done-with

There is nothing I could write that would accurately describe what this book is and means. An effort but so worth it. I am heartbroken. I am rereading this with an online group. It is really wonderful to read a second time, especially as I review other readers' thoughts. ...more

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